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New York 1915. Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion, and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst's mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly...
12) A cabbie in a golden era: featuring cabbie's original log of guests transported to Hearst Castle
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J. Sarber
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill., facsims.
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2009
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546 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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"Reveals how an unheralded young newspaperman from San Francisco arrived in New York and created the most successful daily of his time, pushing the medium to an unprecedented level of influence and excitement, and leading observers to wonder if newspapers might be more powerful than kings and popes and presidents. Journalist Kenneth Whyte offers a window onto the media world at the turn of the 20th century as he chronicles Hearst's rivalry with Joseph...
16) San Simeon revisited: the correspondence between architect Julia Morgan and William Randolph Hearst
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Library Associates, California Polytechnic State University
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
ix, 28, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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18) Citizen Hearst
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PBS
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In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political...
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